Summer 2025 - Data Science intern - 90305678 - Washington, D.C. (Washington, DC, US, 20002) - Amtrak

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Safety & Security Analytics Team in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis is seeking qualified candidates for a year long internship. The intern will work closely with analysts to generate statistical and graphical analyses of data that provide meaningful insight to safety data trends and generate predictions that are actionable. The intern will also engage with process and data experts throughout the organization to learn how to create a unified approach to problem solving related to identifying risks to customers and employees, mitigation strategies, and/or to improve processes to eliminate injuries, hazards, and risks in the workplace. The intern will focus on learning to design data modeling processes, create algorithms and predictive models to extract, analyze, summarize, and visualize data.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Learn to identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes while adhering to quality standards and procedures.
• Learn to Interpret and analyze data using exploratory mathematic and statistical techniques based on the scientific method to discover trends and patterns.
• Participates in guided, multifaceted analytic studies against large volumes of data.
• Conducts research and analytic activities utilizing various data points (unstructured and structured) and employ programming to clean, massage, and organize the data.
• Work closely with analysts to experiment against data points, provide information based on experiment results and provide previously undiscovered solutions to data challenges.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be actively pursuing a degree at an accredited educational institution. 
• Must be actively pursuing a graduate degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, data analytics, data science, or other quantitative field.
• Must have at least 3 years of academic undergraduate studies completed or a junior status at minimum. 
• Must have a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher.
• Must be available to work a minimum of 20 hours per week between the days/hours: Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Knowledge of Python, or other programming languages
• Knowledge of SQL or other querying languages 
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel including VBA to build macros, pivot tables, and advanced formulas/functions
• Knowledge of or experience with using BI tools such as PowerBI, SAP Business Objects, Tableau, or equivalent and data frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark or equivalent
• Knowledge of building predictive models and machine-learning algorithms a plus

COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.

The hourly range is $17.50 per hour - $35.00 per hour. Pay is based on factors including school year, program of study, etc.  In addition, paid internships include Amtrak rail pass privileges as a part of the experience along with one (1) PTO day per academic year.
 
Summer 2025 internship program will run from May 19th - August 8, 2025. 
 

Requisition ID:163156
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia

Work Arrangement:06-Onsite 
Job Family/Function:Safety & Security 
Relocation Offered:No 
Travel Requirements:Up to 25% 

You power our progress through your performance.
 

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions. 

Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen. 

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.  

In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses. 

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.